spectacles long-gone into dusk. Dark liquor’s black as you make it / but I

never drank a crystal drop. Still, a life demolished to sooty, salty devil’s

poison:

I want it back. Innocence, vitality, sobriety and such; so hear me / in one

nebula diverging from sinful plains in careless, sorrowful days – I need

her back.

RitapaNeogi is an aspiring journalist from the heart of Portland, Oregon. She began creative writing in August 2015. Since then, her poetry has been published in Wildness Journal, Doll Hospital and Germ Magazine. In her free time, Ritapa explores film photography, hates the Oxford comma and worries incessantly over the environment.